McCain Camp Likes Hillary's Phone Ad

[BeyondGeography]

"Please keep running those 3:00 A.M. ads"

That's how Randy Scheunemann, who is overseeing foreign policy issues for John McCain's campaign, just summed up the obvious in a Council on Foreign Relations event here in Washington. After Mara Rudman, who is advising Hillary Clinton, very briefly addressed the issue of Clinton's foreign policy experience, Scheunemann chimed in with:

"Please keep running those 3:00 A.M. ads about who you want to answer the phone, because we like those."

In other words, the more Clinton and Obama keep talking about how inexperienced the other is, the more it sticks for both.

Interestingly, Rudman highlighted Clinton's "travel and experiences on the ground" as first lady as proof that she's ready to answer that phone. If that's the "commander in chief threshold" that Clinton keeps talking about, it sounds pretty thin to me. At least as thin as Obama's argument that he lived for a while in Indonesia, and that somehow qualifies him to handle the complexities of the Middle East peace process, serve as commander in chief, and execute the other national security responsibilities of the Oval Office. In a dogfight with John McCain, Clinton and Obama had better have more bullets in the gun than that.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/8357

Note: Obama would make the national security debate about judgment in the GE, not experience. Hillary would have to do the same thing, but this would be much more difficult for her after spending the entire primary season touting her so-called experience.

[writes3000]

1. No surprise. Hillary would rather her buddy get elected if she can't.

And I suspect she's trying to influence her voters to vote that way.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Exactly! If she can't be Prez, then no Democrat can!

She will wait her turn until 2012 to rear her monstrous ugly head again!

[rocktivity]

2. Hillary says we should pick her over Obama because she has more experience.

Shouldn't we therefore pick McCain over Hillary because HE has more experience?

:crazy:
rocknation

[rocktivity]

7. .

I rest my case.

[ChazII]

3. Wonder if she will

'Goldwater' (mushroom cloud) McCain, should she be the nominee?

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Your note is why Hillary would be a disaster to run up against McCain.

She automatically loses the experience card, so what can she run on? Can't run on her judgment, since McCain will just call her a flip-flopper. Can't run on experience, because McCain has far more of it. So what does she run on? Is she going to out-hawk McCain?

[Middle finga]

6. How in the hell is a old senile war monger considered the best for

national security, I hope the american citizens have more since than that.